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Elath

location debated

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ANCIENT NAMES

  • ʿEṣyon Geber Biblical Hebrew
  • Aila Greek

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Skip the map 15°E 20°E 25°E 30°E 35°E 40°E 45°E 50°E 28°N 32°N 36°N 40°N Syria SYRIA Red Sea Red Sea Mount Seir Mount Seir Moab MOAB Ezion-geber Ezion-geber Edom EDOM Arabah ARABAH Elath Elath 100 mi scriptoria.digital Place data: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0

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city mountain known location approximate debated 8 places · c. AD 30-62 · modern coastline: harbors have silted up over two thousand years · drag and zoom · Place data: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0

WITH EDOM · EZION-GEBER · RED SEA 2 · ARABAH AND 3 MORE, named in the same passages

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Map: Scriptoria, CC BY 4.0. Place data: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0. Coast and rivers: Natural Earth, public domain. Relief: ETOPO 2022 (NOAA NCEI), public domain. The credits are in each sheet's footer.

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COORDINATES 29.5307, 35.0000

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